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By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A government commission in Guyana tasked with investigating a fire that killed 20…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Regents at Western New Mexico University are throwing their support behind…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say they have returned two more pieces of art to the heirs of a Jewish Holocaust victim. They…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. agency promoting gender equality says women and children are the main victims…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland state prosecutors say four Baltimore police officers who fired three dozen shots at an armed man during a foot pursuit in…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has reinstated Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr., who…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Doug Burgum, R-N.D.; Quentin Fulks, a top member of President Joe Biden’s campaign team;…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Military officials say as many as 121 unmarked graves in a former Black cemetery have been discovered at a U.S. Air Force base…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial,…

NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are appealing a judge’s ruling that is blocking their planned merger. The airlines said Friday…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials have linked numerous cases of gastrointestinal illness in Southern California to the consumption of raw oysters…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times have participated in one-day walkout to protest imminent layoffs. The job action Friday…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law after…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally have…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A group of people and businesses who say they are owed money by Rudy Giuliani gathered…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a man who died in prison decades ago has been identified through DNA as the attacker who abducted and physically…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo’s new administration says it will make addressing…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the consolidation of local police and…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four high school students in Las Vegas were indicted Friday as adults on second-degree murder charges in the…

GLEN ROCK, Pa. (AP) — A school board in southern Pennsylvania has voted to reinstate the district’s old mascot logo portraying a Native American…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Police have cleared the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party of rape allegations, but have asked…

BOSTON (AP) — One of two Rhode Island men charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct in connection with the death of a fan at a New…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Like other universities, Harvard is struggling to manage campus responses to Israel’s war in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York City say an 11-month-old baby has died after being burned by steam leaking from a radiator inside a Brooklyn…

FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York man on trial for the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman who was with a group of friends who…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Republicans have introduced a bill that would set up a binding statewide…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Some federal search warrants have revealed new details about a shooting in August on the University of North…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Religious leaders say six nuns have been kidnapped in Haiti as they traveled on a bus through the capital. The Haitian…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. company’s failed moonshot has ended with a fiery plunge over the South…

By NICK PERRY and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press THORNTON, N.H. (AP) — An experienced hiker who had accomplished the “Triple Crown” of…

By KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — School officials in Las Vegas have released police reports and body camera footage of…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A historically Black college in Missouri is in turmoil…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge Friday in a 2021…

DULLES, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a small aircraft made an emergency landing on a northern Virginia highway after taking off from nearby…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The publisher of Sports Illustrated has notified employees it is planning to lay off a significant portion — possibly…

INDIO, Calif. (AP) — A jury deadlock has led to a mistrial in the voluntary manslaughter case against an off-duty Los Angeles police officer.…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is facing a lawsuit by three people wounded in bombings…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills and a state representative who immigrated from Somalia are…

DENVER (AP) — One of three teens charged with starting a house fire in suburban Denver that killed five people — apparently out of revenge for a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a short-term spending bill that keeps the federal government operating until early March. Signed…

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands gathered in Hamburg on Friday for a demonstration against the far right, and organizers said the protest was ended…

By TRISHA AHMED and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S.,…

HATBORO, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia man is accused of stabbing to death a neighbor with whom he had feuded after an argument about the…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say American fighter jets struck Iranian-backed Houthi rebel sites for the…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley ‘s birth name, the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is expected to endorse former President Trump ahead of…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man has been sentenced to two life sentences plus 30 years for blowing…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press A judge on Friday dismissed a juror in the trial of a Connecticut woman accused of helping her boyfriend cover up…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Getting through winter healthy means trying to protect yourself from respiratory viruses. January can be the…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate set to be the first person put to death by nitrogen gas will ask a…

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — African leaders have criticized Israel for its military campaign in Gaza and called for…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Senate says she will run for governor in 2026. Democrat Toni…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of fatally shooting…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor has vetoed legislation aimed at providing more transparency in police…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is calling on citizens not to support drug cartels or oppose the installation of National Guard…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — On the surface, the platform beneath a new generation of automobiles has little to do with politics…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government says it will challenge an auction of artifacts belonging to…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has dropped his libel lawsuit against the publisher of a British tabloid following a…